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Fatty acid desaturase activity (serum)

MC4R · rs9957425

What the study found

Who was studied 1,453 European ancestry individuals.

The effect The reported allele is T; the catalogue records no effect size ; p = 4 × 10−8.

How common The T allele had a frequency of about 61% in the people studied.

Where it sits Chromosome 18, band 18q21.32 — between genes, 15.9 kb from GLUD1P4.

What each result means

C/C No copy of the version the research linked to Fatty acid desaturase activity (serum). This is the starting point the study compared everyone against.
C/T One copy of the version the research linked to Fatty acid desaturase activity (serum). That is a smaller link than two copies.
T/T Two copies of the version the research linked to Fatty acid desaturase activity (serum). That is the strongest link of the three results. A link in a study is not a diagnosis.
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Questions about rs9957425

What is rs9957425?

rs9957425 is a single position in the genome, in or near the MC4R gene. Published research associates it with fatty acid desaturase activity (serum). A single variant does not decide an outcome — it shifts a probability, and for most common variants the shift is small.

Does having rs9957425 mean I will get this?

No. Common variants like this one move a probability slightly and, on their own, rarely decide anything about one person. Nothing on this page is a diagnosis, and health decisions should be made with a clinician who can see your whole picture.

Where does the information about rs9957425 come from?

GWAS Catalog, Nutrients 2018, PMID:30453627. Every variant on MyGeneLog comes from public primary sources and is published with its citation and the date it was checked.

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